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...crops like cotton, and at the same time opened the gates wide for the importation from abroad of products much better produced at home. Clearly a policy which calls for slaughtering cattle in the north-west and then importing more from Canada cannot appeal to the vote of any pocket-wise consumer...
...leaders of the Heimwehr, meeting to discuss their autumn program, had to decide whether to remain loyal to Starhemberg or transfer their allegiance to Starhemberg's former right hand man, Major Emil Fey. They could not lightly forget that Starhemberg had fed & clothed the Heimwehr from his own pocket until his money had run out, had then continued to feed and clothe them with Mussolini's money. After anxious debate the Heimwehr leaders finally voted for Starhemberg, then with one accord backed him in expelling Fey, who has been Chancellor Schuschnigg's candidate to succeed Starhemberg. Locals...
...young U. S. Jew named Isadora W. Schlesinger tired of his family's banking business, ran away to Johannesburg, Africa, where he landed with only a few pennies in his pocket. Smart, hardworking, he set out to make his way not by mining but by servicing the miners. Beginning with insurance, he got into real estate, farming, banking, shipping, chain stores, theatres. Now 61, he is short, round-faced, roly-poly, called "the Rockefeller of South Africa" because he owns more of it than any other man. Still a U. S. citizen, he dislikes publicity, hides in a tiny...
Some 3,000 pair of eyes were glued on the two chairmen as, each in a natty light brown suit with handkerchief peeping from breast pocket, they mounted the Forum platform in the Grand Ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria one afternoon last week. The rivals grinned, clasped hands...
...Cornhag Kesley '37, president of the Advocate, next spoke for the old Mother, who sometimes carried a champagne bottle in her apron pocket, offered chances for the expression of opinion, and was the oldest literary publication at Harvard...